URBAN GEOGRAPHY TERMS Action space—The geographical area that contains the space an indivdual interacts with on a daily basis. Annexation—the process of legally adding land area to a city. Beaux arts—This movement within city planning and urban design that stressed the marriage of older‚ classical forms with newer‚ industrial ones. Common characteristics of this period include wide thoroughfares‚ spacious parks‚ and civic monuments that stressed progress‚ freedom‚ and national unity. City
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BASIC (Bay Area Science & Innovation Consortium) www.bayareabasic.org • basic@bayareacouncil.org Bay Area Council Economic Institute www.bayareaeconomy.org • bacei@bayareacouncil.org 201 California Street‚ Suite 1450‚ San Francisco‚ CA 94111 (415) 981-7117 • Fax (415) 981-6408 The Bay Area Innovation System How the San Francisco Bay Area Became the World’s Leading Innovation Hub and What Will Be Necessary to Secure Its Future A Bay Area Science & Innovation Consortium Report produced
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as the prognosticators. Over the past century the rise in U.S. urbanization has been dramatic‚ from 39 percent in 1890 to 53 percent in 1940 to 73 percent in 1970 to 75 percent in 1990. The share of the population living in the ten largest metropolitan areas has indeed declined from 23 percent to 21 percent since 1970‚ but the share of the population living in ’ The relative poverty figures are taken from the 1994 City and County Data Book; Glaeser and Sacerdote (1996) provide the victimization
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State PMB 1115 Calabar‚ CRS. chimaogba@yahoo.com inah.okon@yahoo.com 2348039675438 2348034126049 Key words: Land use‚ residential choice making‚ urban transit‚ and traffic congestion. Abstract In current practice‚ very few Metropolitan Planning Agencies attempt to capture the effects of transportation system changes on land use‚ and the consequent feedback effects on transportation system performance‚ despite substantial evidence that these effects may be significant. This
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3) ISSN 2304-2613 (Print); ISSN 2305-8730 (Online) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Traffic Congestion in Bangladesh- Causes and Solutions: A study of Chittagong Metropolitan City Robaka Shamsher1 & Mohamamd Nayeem Abdullah2 1 2 Lecturer‚ School of business‚ Independent University‚ Chittagong‚ Bangladesh Lecturer‚ School of business‚ Independent University‚ Chittagong‚ Bangladesh ABSTRACT One of the most
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educational facilities‚ infrastructure development‚ as a business centre‚ agricultural output‚ industrial growth‚ medical and health facilities and as a hub of real estate business. As per the census of 2001‚ Meerut has attained the status of a Metropolitan city i.e.‚ million plus population . The rising importance of the city compels
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Urban Sprawl Rapid expansion of our metropolitan areas has been coined the term “urban sprawl”. Urban sprawl is now looked at negatively because of its affect on society. Because of capitalism and the idea of having your home with the white picket fence‚ urban sprawl has taken over the United States of America. The affects of urban sprawl can be seen in our environment‚ our community‚ and in our health. Our community has changed the most due to urban sprawl. “One in two Americans now lives
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The population of the metropolis increases because people from rural areas and overseas migrate to the urban areas in large numbers‚ averaging 7.6 per cent per year (United Nations Population Division‚ 2001). Increasing of population in many big cities may causes serious problems even in advanced countries. Seoul‚ the capital city of South Korea‚ which more than 11 millions of population‚ has grown rapidly into a metropolis since the end of Korean War (Kim‚ 2005). Over population in Seoul creates
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Introduction Urban Heat Island – UHI is one of the important phenomenons of meteorology. It refers to a metropolitan area that becomes significantly warmer as compared with the areas surrounding it. Urban heat island is a well-documented and widely accepted outcome of the human modifications to the environment. The temperature of the metropolitan area differs from those surrounding areas mostly at night time‚ especially in summer‚ and during the dry clear‚ and calm weather when there is flow
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strategies of the country. Even at present‚ there is no proper policy guideline or regulations through which urbanization can be tackled. As a result‚ unplanned and haphazard growth is the common feature in most urban areas of the country and this situation is much more severe in metropolitan cities particularly in Dhaka. Such a situation resulted mainly due to inadequate attention given to urban planning and development. Being predominantly an agrarian country‚ rural and agricultural development in Bangladesh
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